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Stories in Fiction that you’ll love, handpicked by our team.

The End of the Road
“What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.”
By Barb Dukeman5 years ago in Fiction
A Cherished Classic
The other day, I really couldn’t sleep… and I fell on this bedtime story. I guess it has a special meaning for me, I mean it inspires my imagination to the point that I actually feel it. It’s as if, I am being transported by it in real time.
By Alice K.S.5 years ago in Fiction
Home
“You know, we used to use the word ‘Earth’ to mean ‘ground’ or ‘dirt’,” James Macready said conversationally over the inter-helmet comm. “Synonymous with ‘habitable land’, you know?”
By EquinoxNight5 years ago in Fiction
The ABCs of Cosmic Love
The year is 2150. I’m a resident of what was the USA before we all became one giant global economy. That is, we had to if we wanted to survive. After The Great Fall, there was a melding of human and robot assimilation. Except they’re not us. I feel like I’m putting on a show portraying my AI personality. It’s almost impossible for me not to say I won't. What choice do I have? One thought-die. I've done that once before I became part of AI. My family and I have been designed this way through generations of programming.
By Jessica Crane 5 years ago in Fiction
Pandora's Locket
Tick. Tick. Tick. I have never had a birthday. Birthdays are reserved for those lucky enough to have been born, rather than created.
By Tanya Hankins5 years ago in Fiction
Karina Corona
The bright green light scanned Karina’s face and took her temperature before allowing her into the building’s antechamber. She stepped in. A fine mist containing fuck-knows-what descended on her, and then a tray slid out of the wall to her right. She loaded it up with the hamburger and chips. Back in it went. Another successful delivery. Another day, (and quite literally) another dollar.
By Cas Nolan5 years ago in Fiction
01001001 00100000 01000001 01001101 00100000 01001000 01010101 01001101 01000001 01001110 (I AM HUMAN)
“I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other.”
By J. R. Lowe5 years ago in Fiction
What We Lost to the Flames
Humans are delicate creatures. Our bodies, our beliefs, our egos; all as fragile as crystal glass. To break a human takes no more than an ounce of pressure, and from that weak flesh host to draw out a monster, takes even less.
By Eva Joyce5 years ago in Fiction
The Whisper
He watches the sun set; the peachy haze gradually recedes into blackness over the terracotta tiles of the next door neighbours’ second story addition.
By Elizabeth Shute5 years ago in Fiction
A Guide to Parenting During the Apocalypse
1. Do not complain, you did not ask for this. The world is now full of children who live with their grandparents, aunts, uncles, distant cousins, friends of the family, or total strangers. You are not special because you are raising a friend's child. You have not been singled out. This is the way things are.
By Mikaela Bell5 years ago in Fiction
The Ascension
Eve sat staring down at the locket that she held in her hands. She looked at the picture of her mother and father inside the worn heart-shaped metal edges of the locket. "I wish they would have listened to me. But there wasn't enough time to convince them" she thought. She pictured how her mother would laugh at her jokes. She remembered back to when things were normal. When she had all of her family and friends. Before the Ascension.
By Mary Shaw5 years ago in Fiction
A Grimm Cinderella
When I was young, I read a lot on my own. My mom started me off with the classic fairy tales-- Cinderella, Beauty and the Beast, Jack and the Beanstalk -- what she didn’t tell me was that the original Brothers Grimm versions of those same stories were absolutely terrifying.
By Anna Mirella5 years ago in Fiction